Ed Miliband was doing his best to get down with the kids at the launch of Labour’s manifesto for young people on Friday, but his briefing notes on the young might be missing some key bits of info.
In a Q&A at the end of the launch, Miliband called on one of the press pack, who introduced himself as “Ben Bryant from Vice News”.
“From where?” Miliband checked, before asking “What does Vice News do?”
“We make films, we write stories,” responded Bryant to giggles from the audience, before going for broke and asking whether the election’s “stage-management bullshit” was especially alienating for young people.
Miliband recovered by pointing out that “I don’t think you count as stage-managed do you Ben?” But if he’s hoping to swing the youth vote, he might want to make sure he’s up to speed with where the yoof are getting their news these days.